Patents Assigned to THE NORIX GROUP
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Publication number: 20210127832Abstract: The ligature resistant hinge cover comprising a bridge between a cabinet and a hinge mounted door. The ligature resistant hinge cover comprising a cabinet face portion on the cabinet and a door portion disposed adjacent a door hinge side whereby the door portion is adapted to close a gap between the door hinge side and the ligature resistant hinge cover. The ligature resistant hinge cover further comprising a sloping top portion bridging the gap between the top of the door and the top of the cabinet with a sloping rounded top edge. A concave hinge portion adjacent the hinge. A convex outside adapted to provide a smooth transition from the cabinet to the door.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 30, 2019Publication date: May 6, 2021Applicant: The Norix GroupInventor: Abdullah Shahzad
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Patent number: 10980660Abstract: The present invention comprises a kit of a restraint ring, a base and a quick release, tamper resistant fastener. The base is adapted to attach to a fixture. The fixture may be a bed, chair, floor or wall. The base may be attached using tamper resistant fasteners. The base may be permanently attached or may be removably attached. The base is adapted to releasably receive the quick release fastener thereby attaching the restraint ring to the base.Type: GrantFiled: January 14, 2018Date of Patent: April 20, 2021Assignee: The Norix Group, Inc.Inventors: Jed C. Richardson, Abdullah Shahzad
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Publication number: 20200206014Abstract: The removable restraint ring receptacle comprises a base for attachment to a furniture piece. The base adapted to receive a ligature resistant fastener. A restraint ring engaged by the fastener. The ligature resistant fastener may be a ball pin lock having a conical or rounded head. The head bearing against the restraint ring. The ligature resistant fastener further comprising a collar adapted to extend from the head to the base. The collar comprising a tapered outside surface adapted to span the gap between the head and the base when the ring is removed thereby providing a tapered protrusion to prevent the attachment of a ligature or snagging of clothes.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 31, 2018Publication date: July 2, 2020Applicant: The Norix GroupInventors: Jed C. Richardson, Abdullah Shahzad
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Publication number: 20200037774Abstract: The invention is directed to a ligature proof wall mounted bed having a bed body molded of plastic or the like attached to a bed frame on a wall. The bed frame may comprise end supports having sloping surfaces attached to the wall by end plates. The sloping surfaces may extend up above the frame or down below the frame. The end supports may have molded outer shells adapted to receive the bed body in a ligature proof engagement. The frame may comprise support members extending normal to the wall to provide a support for the body. A mattress may be removably disposed on the bed body.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 16, 2018Publication date: February 6, 2020Applicant: The Norix GroupInventors: Brian Moon, Abdullah Shahzad
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Publication number: 20190374371Abstract: The present invention comprises a kit of a restraint ting, a base and a quick release, tamper resistant fastener. The base is adapted to attach to a fixture. The fixture may be a bed, chair, floor or wall. The base may be attached using tamper resistant fasteners. The base may be permanently attached or may be removably attached. The base is adapted to releasably receive the quick release fastener thereby attaching the restraint ring to the base.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 14, 2018Publication date: December 12, 2019Applicant: The Norix GroupInventor: Jed C. Richardson
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Patent number: 10463166Abstract: A molded mattress having a one piece seamless cover with a ventilation plug mounted in a tamper resistant recess formed surrounding a ventilation hole. The one piece seamless cover may have a plurality of airways formed in the cover to allow air circulation between the user and the mattress cover. The one piece seamless cover is integrally rotomolded to form a rugged comfortable mattress for intensive use environments. An RFID communication chip may be inserted in the cover for information management. The cover may be formed from solid color, translucent or transparent material.Type: GrantFiled: April 6, 2016Date of Patent: November 5, 2019Assignee: The Norix GroupInventor: Jed Richardson
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Publication number: 20190135483Abstract: A shank proof container made of a flexible industrial plastic sheet sheet. The industrial plastic sheet sheet may be cut to form shapes that are welded by RF welding or other forming means to create a closed container having a bottom, side wall and an open top. The RF welding creates welded multi-layer seams that support the bottom spaced from the open top.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 6, 2017Publication date: May 9, 2019Applicant: The Norix GroupInventor: Brian Moon
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Publication number: 20180325262Abstract: The invention is a rocker for therapeutic treatment of a user by control of actuators in the rocker and sensing biometric and mechanical conditions of and around the user. The rocker may be formed of a unitary body of translucent or transparent material. The body of the chair features a single tail floor engagement portion and a user area of seat and back. The rocker may have actuators mounted in or near the rocker to generate heat, sound, vibration or light, Sensors in and around the chair monitor movement of the rocker and biometric conditions of the user. A control panel in communication with the actuator and sensors controls and monitors conditions and communicates with a monitoring computer for storage and reporting. Predetermined patters of actuator activation may be programmed into the computer for transmission and execution by the control panel.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 29, 2017Publication date: November 15, 2018Applicant: The Norix GroupInventor: Jed C. Richardson
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Publication number: 20180311092Abstract: The invention is directed to an intensive use furniture component having a sealing connection on a mounting surface for sealingly attaching to a floor or wall to prevent liquid from seeping under or behind the furniture component. The furniture component is formed by an outer shell having a side wall extending generally perpendicular to the mounting surface. A mounting flange is disposed adjacent the sidewall. A bolt hole is formed in the mounting flange. The sealing connection comprises a caulk channel formed as a channel in the mounting surface for receiving a bead of caulk to fill the seam between the mounting surface and the wall or floor to prevent fluid from seeping past the caulk channel to a space adjacent the interior mounting surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 1, 2017Publication date: November 1, 2018Applicant: The Norix GroupInventors: Richard B. Karl, Scott Karl, Kurt Staskon
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Publication number: 20180141697Abstract: A storage box for property storage having an open box side surrounded by an upper edge and closed by a lid engaged to the box edges to prevent the box from disengaging from the lid. The lid surroundingly engaging the upper edge of the box along a horizontal box flange around the perimeter of the open box side. A vertical box flange on three sides of the horizontal box flange surrounding the upper edge. A lid on the storage box. The lid having a box edge rail engagement for surroundingly and removably engaging the vertical box flange of the storage box.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 21, 2015Publication date: May 24, 2018Applicant: THE NORIX GROUPInventor: Brian Moon
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Publication number: 20170290439Abstract: A molded mattress having a one piece seamless cover with a ventilation plug mounted in a tamper resistant recess formed surrounding a ventilation hole. The one piece seamless cover may have a plurality of airways formed in the cover to allow air circulation between the user and the mattress cover. The one piece seamless cover is integrally rotomolded to form a rugged comfortable mattress for intensive use environments. An RFID communication chip may be inserted in the cover for information management. The cover may be formed from solid color, translucent or transparent material.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 6, 2016Publication date: October 12, 2017Applicant: The Norix GroupInventor: Jed Richardson
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Publication number: 20160037928Abstract: The invention is directed to a modular furniture design having contoured ballast chamber for directing the weighting from a peripheral weighting orientation to a peripheral weighting configuration. The furniture may further comprise a base and a top, the base having a one piece molded generally hollow body comprising a contoured ballast compartment having a closable opening and a plurality of sidewalls forming legs supporting a top. A top attachment may be a chair, table top or similar furniture piece. The chair may be adapted for sitting at a table, lounging or reading with or without arms. An attachable cushion is fastened to the chair to provide a color coordinated seat attached by tamper resistant fastener assembly comprising tabs mounted under the seat of the cushion extending into and engaging seat holes in the seating surface of the chair and held in place by a threaded fastener extending through the back rest of the chair engaging a threaded insert in the cushion.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 21, 2015Publication date: February 11, 2016Applicant: The Norix GroupInventor: John Cali, SR.
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Publication number: 20150211284Abstract: The invention is directed to a modular visitation station having an expandable construction to adapt to provide individual visitation modules interwired together in a combination of back-to-back or side-by-side configurations. The visitation station may utilize single utility access for power or communications to connect each attached visitation module. Wiring access is provided between modules, and to the floor, wall or ceiling access points.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 29, 2015Publication date: July 30, 2015Applicant: THE NORIX GROUPInventor: Brian Moon
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Publication number: 20150201755Abstract: The invention is directed to a partially ballasted shelving unit having a hollow body and plurality of shelves. A plurality of interconnected ballast chambers formed in the open body provide a ballast holding configuration that when partially filled with a ballast material provides a path for the ballast material to flow from one ballast chamber to another when the shelving unit is reoriented from a vertical orientation to a tipped orientation. The flowing ballast material causing the center of gravity to move when the shelving unit is lifted or moved.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 21, 2015Publication date: July 23, 2015Applicant: THE NORIX GROUPInventor: Brian Moon
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Publication number: 20120286554Abstract: The invention is directed to an anti-tilt swivel mechanism attaching a seat to a base. The mechanism adapted to control the tilting movement urged on the swivel mechanism when a user shifts weight on the seat. The anti-tilt swivel mechanism comprises a tilt stop mounted on the swivel mechanism to move with the chair and engage the base plate along a front edge. The anti-tilt seat swivel mechanism adapted to engage the base plate when a tilting force is applied to the chair preventing the force from being transmitted as a bending force on the swivel mechanism at the mounting plates or the pivot rod.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 18, 2010Publication date: November 15, 2012Applicant: The Norix GroupInventor: Brian Moon
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Publication number: 20120090088Abstract: The invention is directed to a reversible seat for use in a shower. The seat having an integral handle for moving the seat from a closed position to an open position and a means for retaining the seat in a closed position in either a standard orientation or reversed orientation.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 18, 2010Publication date: April 19, 2012Applicant: The Norix GroupInventor: Jerome C. Parker
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Publication number: 20110198458Abstract: A tamper resistant adjustable glide assembly for furniture is disclosed that comprises a foot, a stem and an insert connected to a leg of the furniture. The foot having a having a top and a bottom, the bottom adapted to engage a floor surface. A stem mount on the top of the foot to provide an adjustable attachment to a first end of the stem. The stem having a second end spaced from the top of the foot and a threaded portion intermediate the first end and the second end. An insert captured on the stem. The insert threadably engaged to the stem by a generally cylindrical body with a threaded passage extending through the body adapted to matingly engage the threaded portion of the stem. A cap fixed on the second end of the stem to capture the insert. The insert disposed in a generally vertical passageway formed in the furniture and fixed therein to secure the glide assembly to the leg. The insert recessed into the leg to prevent prying or forcible removal without destruction of the furniture.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 15, 2010Publication date: August 18, 2011Applicant: THE NORIX GROUPInventors: Scott Karl, Peter Graves, Brian Moon